Comment 43 for bug 1990673

FWIW: I'm not a PS Style expert.. I'm not even sure if the below could be implemented at all (compatibility reasons). Only thinking out loud..

A) I surely grasp inconvenience mentioned in comment 30 comment 36. Where the order of actions has influence on the formatting. Terrible, IMHO

B) Default Paragraph Style is actually "Master/Parent Paragraph Style" (like comment 5 points out). It's not a ordinary style, in principle it affects all other Paragraph Styles except if those other paragraphs explicitly define otherwise. Currently the 'Master/Parent Paragraph Style is set to be default too.,

C) There is the (taste) question: do you like the 'Text Body' formatting to be default.. comment 38

A way out would be to change Next Paragraph Style from headings and such to Default Paragraph Style instead of Text Body. However you likely into the issue at comment 22.. so no go

If the current called Default Paragraph Style would be renamed Master Style or Parent Style. And a new Style introduced: a 'dummy' style: which would be an empty style.. so exact copy of Master Style or Parent Style (the current Default Paragraph Style), called yet Default Paragraph Style. And this style would be made default, instead of the Master Style: problem 22 would be gone.

If you change Next Style to the 'future' Default Paragraph Style (instead of Text Body), the formatting difference would be gone as mentioned under A

If you prefer different look you can modify the Default Paragraph Style (new), without affect all other styles. Sadly it's impossible to say: replace Default Paragraph Style (new) by say Text Body Style. Which would make it easy an existing PS style to something else of desire. Why would I manually configure the default Paragraph Style to match the specifications of Text Body.